Linker (ld) build question

[Randolph Chung]

> I have built the binutils-2.16.1 on HPUX11 (hppa2.0w) and everything
> built except 'ld'. 
> 
> I looked in the Makefile and the all-ld and maybe-all-ld are PHONY
> targets, so I feel that I've done something in the configuration
> incorrectly.  I downloaded and checked the 2005 archives and do not see
> any problems along these lines.
> 
> I ran configure with the options:
>    export CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc
>    export CFLAGS=
>    export CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++
>    export CXXFLAGS=
> 
> Is my mistake obvious to anyone?

binutils doesn't (yet) have a SOM linker, so you cannot build ld for
hppa2.0w.

If you want a 64-bit ELF linker for hpux, use --target=hppa64-hp-hpux11

randolph